Breaking The Waves – World Titles Collection
A naive woman living in a remote Calvinist community on the Scottish coast,
Bess (Emily Watson in an Academy Award® nominated performance) flaunts the will
of the town's austere churchmen to marry Jan (Stellan Skarsgård, Good Will
Hunter) a lusty Swede working in a nearby offshore oil rig. Her purity is put to
the ultimate test when Jan is crippled in an accident and she agrees to continue
their love-making vicariously through other men. Pilloried as a harlot, Bess is
committed to the asylum but not before she seeks Jan's recovery through one
final act of faith. Captured through Robby Mueller's (Paris, Texas) raw,
relentless hand-held camera, this triumphant tale of tragedy, faith and
redemption – the first in Lars Von Trier's “Golden Heart” trilogy on
saintly heroines book-ended by Dancer in the Dark – is a cinematic tour
de force.